We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two NAS solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"Its performance is good. We have a lot of applications that have high I/O, and 3PAR handles those with no problem."
"The predictive analytics, where we're getting notifications prior to a failure has been helpful."
"The product has definitely improved throughput. We are able to more efficiently see patients because all of our medical records and practice management software seems to run faster. Uploading images and charts is a lot faster. Recalling information in the exam rooms is faster. The overall throughput of data, going back and forth, is so we can more efficiently see patients, and it also helps increase our patient flow. We can see patients a lot faster, getting them in and out a lot more quickly."
"The solution is quite stable and scalable."
"They are using Ansible to automate the provisioning, so that simplifies the day-to-day operations."
"We do not have to take the whole system down to do upgrades."
"The tool is fast and easy to use. You can also configure it easily. The product also has good performance tuning."
"The most valuable features for me are the simple management of the platform and its performance."
"The product is flexible."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The management interface is not intuitive."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"I would like to see more virtualization: storage virtualization, data virtualization would be very nice."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ's pricing could be cheaper."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"We did a firmware upgrade, and it brought the whole sandbox down. It was supposed to be done transparently, and that did not happen. It was not like we did it on our own; we had support set it up for us."
"Its licensing cost can be improved."
"We no longer have OEM support in South Africa which is not helpful, it can be difficult. They should add an office back to the country because it was better."
"The solution can improve on the replication features."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 6th in NAS with 299 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 2nd in NAS with 97 reviews. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and NetApp AFF, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and VAST Data. See our HPE 3PAR StoreServ vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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